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Elgar: The Longed-for Light
RecommendedElgar's Music in Wartime
Simon Callow (speaker), Simon Callow (speaker) & Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson
Here's a supremely enjoyable Elgar survey centred around a clutch of works composed during the Great War...Throughout, the BBC Concerto Orchestra respond with bright-eyed conviction and commendable... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th November 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Editor's Choice
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Bruckner From the Archives, Vol. 1 Bruckner Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Akademie Kammerchor, Wdr Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Koeckert Quartet, Kurt Wöss, Hans Weisbach, Henry Swoboda, Dean Dixon, Eugen Jochum
This is the first of six two-disc volumes and if the following five hold to the high standards achieved here...there’ll be considerable cause for excitement among all dedicated Brucknerians. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Archive Issue of the Month
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Elgar Remastered
By Lani Spahr
Beatrice Harrison (cello), Princess Victoria H.R.H. (piano), Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
New Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Festival Choir, Sir Edward Elgar, Lawrance Collingwood
So many details in the First Symphony stand out as never before. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Orchestral Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Franz Schmidt: the Book With Seven Seals; Symphony No. 4 Julius Patzak (tenor), Otto Wiener, Hanny Steffek, Hertha Töpper, Erich Majkut, Frederick Guthrie, Franz Illenberger, Graz Cathedral Choir, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Anton Lippe, Rudolf Moralt
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Stanford: Cushendall, Irish Song Cycles
Sharon Carty (mezzo-soprano), Benjamin Russell (baritone), Finghin Collins (piano)
[Carty and Russell] are ideal exponents of these ballads, singing with a touching warmth and charm that is mirrored in the sensitive accompaniment of Finghin Collins. It all sounds fresh and... — More…
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Bruckner From the Archives, Vol. 2 Choir of St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Karl Forster, Eduard van Beinum, George Ludwig Jochum
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 & Dona nobis pacem
RecommendedRenee Flynn and Roy Henderson
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaughan Williams
…the fervour, radiant warmth and sense of the symphony as a great journey - a 'passionate pilgrimage' - make this a uniquely compelling experience. …Dona Nobis Pacem ('Grant us peace'), It's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2008
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Historic Archive
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Dedication: Ruth Gipps
Peter Cigleris (clarinet), Gareth Hulse (oboe), Duncan Honeybourne (piano), Tippett Quartet
Gipps’s music is certainly rich in character...Cigleris, an indefatigable champion of British clarinet music, proves an attentive, big-hearted performer whose devotion to this repertoire is... — More…
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It was high time someone blew the interpretive cobwebs off this still under-appreciated repertoire, and Donohue is clearly the person to do it. He appears to take early Beethoven as his interpretive... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Recording of the Month
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